Apparatus for transferring bottles or the like to an annealing-oven.



C. BRAUER. APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING BOTTLES OR THE LIKE TO ANANNEALING OVEN.

APPLICATION FILED APR. [7, I914.

Patented May 22, 1917.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

c. BRAUER.

APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING BOTTLES OR THE LIKE TO AN ANNEALING OVEN.

A APPLICATION FILED APR. 17. 1914.

1,226,633.. Patented May 22,1917.

3 SHEETSSHEET 2.

C. BRAUER.

APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING BOTTLES OR THE LIKE TO AN ANNEALING OVEN.APPLICATION m o APR. I7, 1914.

1,226,633. A Patented May22,1917.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3- CARL BRAUER, OF HOSTOMITZ, NEAR TEPLITZ, AUSTRIA.

APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERBING BOTTLES OR THE LIKE TO AN ANNEALING-OVEN.

Patented May 22, 1917.

Application filed April 17, 1914. Serial No. 832,436.

or Relating to Apparatus for Transferring Bottles or the like to anAnnealing-Oven, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to apparatus for transferring'bottles or the likehereinafter referred to as bottles, to an annealing oven. Automatictransferring apparatus are known which take the bottles direct from theblowing machine, for example an Owens machine, forward them to theannealing oven and set them in transverse rows on the movable sole orfloor thereof.

In such an apparatus according to the present invention the principalnovelty consists in the'fact that the bottles which travel bottom firstthrough a chute, pass downward and are received in an upright positionin a receiver located in the entrance to the annealing oven providedwith a movable floor or sole, and are pushed forward out of the receiveron or on to the floor or sole by a pusher device, the chute, the pusherdevice and the receiver, being carried by a carrier frame soreciprocated transversely to the direction of travel of the movablesole,

that each bottle pushed or fed on to the latter comes beside thepreceding one. The general arrangement of the devices, whichcan beerected at any time while the plant is in full operation, withoutinterruptionof working and-without rearrangement of the Owens or likeinstallation, is illustrated by way of example in Figure 1.

Fig. 2 is a view on a larger scale, partly in elevation and partly insection on A-B, Fig. 1, Fig. 26a perspective view of a detail of adevice for inverting the bottles to be transferred one after another,and Fig. 3 is a view partly in elevation and partly a section on CD,Fig. 1. Fig. 4. illustrates in plan the driving apparatus for impartingthe lateral motion to the two devices for feeding and placing thebottles in position on the movable sole, these two devices beingarranged side by side. Fig. 5 is an elevation of this apparatus seenfrom the right of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 represents in elevation the arrangementof levers and operating arms for actuating the bottle placing devices,the

shown diagrammatically in plan, Fig. 7.

As seen in Fig. 2, the adjustable bottle raising or ejecting plunger 1is mounted under the bottle disk or table 0 of the Owens or such likemachine, in such manner that in its rise it pushes the bottle out ofthecup orseat 2 of the disk and into the bottle inverter or tilter (Zmounted free above same. The bottle inverter (Z consists of asleeve-like or tubular member slotted or open at the top as shown inFig. 2', and fixed to the frame of the bucket elevator c, Fig. 2. Thedevice d is formed with a deflecting face 2-3 and a turning face 4 soinclined and opening freely downward at the end, that the bottle upwardif required; it may also be provided with a pendulous flap forcontrolling the passage for the bottle through it. The bottles raised bythe buckets 5 are delivered successively to the known bottle depositingdevice f as each bucket reaches the reversing point of the elevator, asshown in Fig. 2. The bottle is deposited by the device 7 on to likewiseknown automatically discharging cartridgesh running on a conveyer trackleading to the annealing oven, and IS (lCllY- ered to known catchers hasshown by Fig. 3, from which it passes into the chute Z and is deliveredupright into the bottle placing device m located over the conveyer bandZ of the annealing oven. In the constructional example illustrated, twobottle placing devices 172, two chutes 7c and two pairs of catchers iare arranged side by side. The bottle placing device an consists asshown in Figs. 3, 4t and 7 of a funnel-like receiver made in halves 6.The halves 6 are fixed at the free ends of the legs of a scissors motion9, pivoted at 7 and opened and closed from the point 8, Figs. 3 and 7,and below the scis sors motion 9 is a pusher rod 13 mounted in the guide10 and supported on rollers-11,

12, running on the conveyer-band Z. From arm 14, Fig. 3, the upwardportion of which carries the point of application 8 of the force foroperating the scissors motion 9. The long horizontal portion of the arm14: is mounted to slide in eyes 15 fixed to an angularly bent lever 16.The bent lever 16 is mounted to swing laterally right and left about apivot 18 on an arm 17 of the pillar supporting the rails of the conveyertrack 9' (Fig. 4;) and to the short arm of the bent lever 16 isconnected the chute k the lower end of which is carried by the supportor guide 10. To the bent lever 16 is pivotally connected a nut 19, andthe two nuts 19 used in the case where two of the devices are disposedside by side, are mounted on a screw spindle 20 (see Figs. land 5)fitted with one fast and two loose pulleys for an open and a crossedbelt which pass at the other end over a belt pulley on a counter shaft21. The counter shaft 21 is adapted to be driven for example with threespeeds, from the staff-wheel 'n that drives the band or rope of theconveyer track 9 to be referred to hereinafter. To one of the nuts 19 isfixed a tappet 22 in the path of which is a weighted lever 23 connectedto the belt shift fork, so that when the nuts reach either end positionthe weighted lever-23 is moved so as by its weight to effect automaticshifting of the belts and thus reverse the motion of the nuts and of theentire bottle placing apparatus.

To the end of the pusher rod 13 extending inward at the bottom from thebent arm 14 is connected a link 24: the other end of which is connectedto the shorter arm of a powerful bell crank lever 25, Fig. 7. Bell cranklever 25 is pivoted at 26 on a support 27 carried by the arm 17. To thelong arm of each bell crank lever 25 is connected a link 28 and each ofthese links is connected tov an operating lever 29, Figs. 3 and 6. Eachof the levers 29 is pivotally mounted at 31 on a carrier fixed to therail supporting pillar, and its upper end extends into the path of thebottle carriages. To the carrier 30 are also pivoted at 32 the operatinglevers 33 theupper ends of which extend into the path of the bottlecarriages in a different plane than that of the operating levers 29, andeach of the levers 33 is connected by a reversing link 34 to theadjacent lever 29 in such manner that when a lever 33 is moved to theright, the-lever 29 connected to it by the reversing link 34 is swung tothe left, while when the lever 29 is moved back to the right, the lever33 coupled to it is swung back to the left. The separate actuation ofthe levers 29 and 33 by the bottle carriages in such manner that at onetime the lever 33 is moved and at the next the lever 29 is attained bymaking the striker or tripping arms of the successive bottle carriagesof suitably different shape.

0n the bottle carriage in Fig. 2, the striker or tripping arm 0 is ofsuch shape that it throws over the levers 33, while the striker arm 39on the bottle carriage in Fig. 3 can only actuate the levers 29.

Assuming now that a charged bottle carriage having a striker arm 0, Fig.2, in traveling in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 6, comes against theleft hand lever 33, the striker arm 0 in the travel of the carriage willmove this lever over to the right, and the lever 29 coupled thereto willtherefore be moved to the left, with the result that the pusher rod 13of the left hand bottle placing device m, Fig. 7, which is in theadvanced position will be retracted and the appertaining bottle receiver6 will. be closed. At the same time a bottle discharged from the bottlecarriage through the pairs of catchers z and through the chute la is fedinto the bottle receiver 6 and set erect on the conveyerband Z. When thestriker arm 0 in the further travel of the bottle carriage comes againstthe second lever 33, this is moved over to the right and the lever 29coupled to it is moved to the left, whereby the receiver 6 of the righthand bottle placing device m is opened, and the bottle which wasreceived and set erect therein at the previous feed is pushed forward onthe band Z by the pusher rod 13. Thus both levers 29 have now been movedover to the left and are in advance of the levers 33. Now when anothercharged carriage having a striker arm p, Fig. 3, in traveling in thedirection of the arrow Fig. 6, strikes the left hand lever 29, it willmove this to the right and the lever 33 coupled thereto to the left,thus opening the receiver 6 of the left hand bottle placing device. Atthe same time the appertaining pusher rod 13 pushes the bottle which wascontained in this receiver, forward on the band Z to a position besidethe bottle previously pushed forward. Vhen the arm p of the carriagestrikes the second lever 29, this lever is moved over to the right andthe lever 33 coupled thereto to the left. The pusher rod of the righthand bottle placing device m is thus retracted and the correspondingreceiver or funnel 6 closed, and at the same time a bottle is fed to.thisTeceiver from the bottle carriage. The placing of the bottles sideby inside is attained owing to the fact thatdur ing the operation of thebottle placing device the screw spindle 20 is rotated from thestafi-wheel' n of the bottle carriage driving mechanism and thereby sucha travel is imparted to the nuts 19 that each chute k v with its bottlereceiver 6, scissors motion 9 tirely automatically in a row, on the conveyer band Z of the annealing oven, as shown by Fig. 4:, and the band isthen moved forward automatically :1 sufiicient distance to allow thenext row to be placed. The drive of the screw spindle 20 has then beenso reversed by the Weighted lever 2 that the bottle placing devices aremoved in the opposite direction until the next row of bottles has beenplaced by them.

The bottle conveying device described above is so constructed orarranged that bottles or the like of different sizes can with equalreliability be automatically placed in rows in the annealing oven.

. The device or apparatus hereinbefore described as arranged for poweroperation can of course be arranged for hand operation.

What 1 claim is:

1. Automatic bottle transferring apparatus including an endless conveyerfor receiving the bottles direct from the machine, an annealing ovenprovided with a movable sole, means for sliding the bottles bottom firstincluding a chute, an open topped receiver in proximity to the annealingoven and adapted to receive the bottles from the chute erect, a pusherdevice for removing the bottles from the receiver to said movable sole,and a reciprocating frame forming a support for the chute, the receiverand the pusher device, the said frame being arranged transversely to themovement of the said sole for assembling the bottles in juxtapositionand the said receiver being mounted to rock about a fixed point of thecarrier frame and thereby have. its open top closed duringthe backwardmotion of the carrier frame.

2. Automatic bottle transferring apparatus including an endless conveyerfor receiving the bottles direct from the machine, an-annealing ovenprovided With a movable sole, means for sliding the bottles bottom firstincluding a chute, an open-topped receiver in proximity to the annealingoven and adapted to receive the bottles from the chute erect, means foropening and closing the receiver, a pusher device for removing thebottles from the receiver to said movablesole, and lever arms projectinginto the path of the endless conveyer and arranged to move the pusherdevice and the receiver opening and closing means at intervalscorresponding to the arrival of successive bottles.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signedmy name in presence of two Witnesses, this 2 day of April, 1914.

CARL BRAUER.

